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EE20194: Group design and professional engineering practice II

[Page last updated: 04 August 2021]

Academic Year: 2021/2
Owning Department/School: Department of Electronic & Electrical Engineering
Credits: 6 [equivalent to 12 CATS credits]
Notional Study Hours: 120
Level: Intermediate (FHEQ level 5)
Period:
Semester 2
Assessment Summary: CW 100%
Assessment Detail:
  • Mouse Report (CW 40%)
  • Coursework Dr Bainbridge (CW 25%)
  • Electronic System Design (CW 25%)
  • Race (CW 10%)
Supplementary Assessment:
EE20194 - Reassessment Coursework (where allowed by programme regulations)
Requisites:
Description: Aims:
To introduce students to the design processes by taking a requirement through to a prototype device.
To provide students with knowledge and awareness of the legal framework under which professional engineers operate, knowledge of innovation in products and in manufacturing processes applicable to the area of Electronic and Electrical Engineering.

Learning Outcomes:
After successfully completing this unit students should be able to:
write a design specification for a product; carry out a top-down systematic design; identify and specify interface requirements for sub-systems; demonstrate an appreciation of how assumptions about the system model can affect the effectiveness of the design solution; demonstrate familiarity with the legal framework under which professional engineers operate; identify the steps taken in innovating and manufacturing electronic and electrical products; present information in a logical and convincing manner.

Skills:
Problem solving; oral communication; working as part of a group; information acquisition, handling and analysis. Taught, facilitated and tested.

Content:
Product design: preparation of specifications; definition of systems and sub-systems. Reliability methods: FMEA, FTA, reliability estimating.
Group design exercise: working in groups to produce a prototype of a small system using electronics for monitoring, control, measurement and signal processing. Hardware & software design issues.
Lectured content: national, EU and world legislation, data protection act, freedom of information act, health and safety, functional safety and safety critical, environmental legislation, professional and product liability, innovation and creativity tools, quality function deployment, value analysis, design for manufacture and assembly, manufacturing implementation, process and materials selectors, change management, technology exploitation.

Programme availability:

EE20194 is Compulsory on the following programmes:

Department of Electronic & Electrical Engineering
  • UEEE-AFB13 : BEng(Hons) Computer Systems Engineering (Year 2)
  • UEEE-AKB13 : BEng(Hons) Computer Systems Engineering with Year long work placement (Year 2)
  • UEEE-AFB01 : BEng(Hons) Electrical and Electronic Engineering (Year 2)
  • UEEE-AKB01 : BEng(Hons) Electrical and Electronic Engineering with Year long work placement (Year 2)
  • UEEE-AFB12 : BEng(Hons) Electrical Power Engineering (Year 2)
  • UEEE-AKB12 : BEng(Hons) Electrical Power Engineering with Year long work placement (Year 2)
  • UEEE-AFB14 : BEng(Hons) Electronic Engineering with Space Science & Technology (Year 2)
  • UEEE-AKB14 : BEng(Hons) Electronic Engineering with Space Science & Technology with Year long work placement (Year 2)
  • UEEE-AFB15 : BEng(Hons) Electronic Systems Engineering (Year 2)
  • UEEE-AKB15 : BEng(Hons) Electronic Systems Engineering with Year long work placement (Year 2)
  • UEEE-AFM13 : MEng(Hons) Computer Systems Engineering (Year 2)
  • UEEE-AKM13 : MEng(Hons) Computer Systems Engineering with Year long work placement (Year 2)
  • UEEE-AFM01 : MEng(Hons) Electrical and Electronic Engineering (Year 2)
  • UEEE-AKM01 : MEng(Hons) Electrical and Electronic Engineering with Year long work placement (Year 2)
  • UEEE-AFM12 : MEng(Hons) Electrical Power Engineering (Year 2)
  • UEEE-AKM12 : MEng(Hons) Electrical Power Engineering with Year long work placement (Year 2)
  • UEEE-AFM14 : MEng(Hons) Electronic Engineering with Space Science & Technology (Year 2)
  • UEEE-AKM14 : MEng(Hons) Electronic Engineering with Space Science & Technology with Year long work placement (Year 2)
  • UEEE-AFM15 : MEng(Hons) Electronic Systems Engineering (Year 2)
  • UEEE-AKM15 : MEng(Hons) Electronic Systems Engineering with Year long work placement (Year 2)

Notes:

  • This unit catalogue is applicable for the 2021/22 academic year only. Students continuing their studies into 2022/23 and beyond should not assume that this unit will be available in future years in the format displayed here for 2021/22.
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